exactingness

• It is not so much exactingness on my part, as that you spoke of meaning to write as soon as you received a note of mine ... which went to you five minutes afterwards ... which is three days ago, or will be when you read this. —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
• In cancer and gastro-intestinal patients, for instance, they have noted the presence of at least one of four traits-intolerance, exactingness (fussiness), considerateness (those who plan your life but spend their own lives feeling they are not appreciated) and criticalness. —  Modern Mechanix
• Not for them exactingness, caprice, the gay or grave analysis of love and lover: such moods charm alone in lovely women, and even in them bring risks along. —  Browning's Heroines
• But on the other hand, it must be remembered that her standard of exactingness was 'high, and some of the things that in her eyes it was merely culpable to leave undone might be counted by others among virtues of supererogation. —  George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings ; Philosophy
• Not for them exactingness, caprice, the gay or grave analysis of love and lover: such moods charm alone in lovely women, and even in _them_ bring risks along. —  Browning's Heroines

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